Holy cow Mom hahaha
thanks for sending me a pillow! That is very nice of you. I was just planning on not having one the
first few nights but should´ve remembered I have the best mom in the whole
entire world!
I think that I am going
to be okay with weight…well not really...I am putting my 20 pounds of books in
my companions luggage and then I will take it out once we get to Oregon!
Thankfully her heaviest bag is only 20 pounds!
I will make sure to
remember to ask my mission president about Christmas! I need to see my mommy :)
We have to have a bag right at the top of our suitcase ready to go proselyte
right when we get to Oregon, crazy! When you get the chance could you add Jared
Vargas, Alejandro Hernandez Livera, and Luis Roberto Palma Abrto...They were my
teachers here and I made them promise me to send me an invite on Facebook to
their weddings haha.
Well, I have so many
crazy emotions going on right now. I am so excited to go and actually do real
missionary work, eat real food and start my journey! But I am also sad...The
first two weeks in the MTC were not my most favorite and then I decided I
needed to change my attitude. These last 4 weeks have been the most amazing
spiritually blessed weeks I have ever experienced. I have absolutely loved
feeling the spirit several times, basically constantly throughout the day, and
I have heard it’s not the same in the field.
I also am sooo grateful
for our teachers. They helped us in so many ways and always had the spirit with
them. I really do feel that we got the best teachers in the whole CCM.
Friday we had meetings
for 12 hours J It was a long day, but super helpful! The
meetings were all about situations that will happen in the field and how to
deal with it. It made me feel a little
more prepared, maybe not the Spanish part...but doctrine! Hermana Phelps and I
are super excited for our 4 hour lay over, we are bringing a bunch of pass a
long cards and are ready to start spreading the gospel!
I will have my new
companion for 12 WEEKS. haha that seems like such a long time, I am hoping and
praying that we can work really well together.
Saturday we had our last
TRC. The most insane, spiritual experience. It made me so excited for the field
and to have real experiences. It opened my eyes to see how huge of trials
people go through and I have gone through nothing in my life!
Sunday, the last Sunday
in the CCM! Our MTC presidency meeting was by President Tenorio and he talked
to us about celestial marriage, exaltation and faith. He shared an experience
how his first-born baby was born while he was gone away for a work trip. His
baby daughter died the next day and he never got to meet her. He explained how
people would always ask him why he wasn’t so depressed about losing his first
child and he would explain to them that he was married in the temple and he
knows he will get to be with his daughter once again. What great faith!
Our devotional was a
talk by Elder Bednar on how to become a Preach My Gospel missionary and he gave
us five steps of how we can do that. Understanding that we are serving Jesus
Christ, always be worthy, treasure up the words of eternal life, understand
that the Holy Ghost is the ultimate and true teacher, and that teaching is much
more than talking and telling. He said multiple times in his talk, "You can
do this!"
For our movie night we
got to watch the first presidency devotional!! Was that great or what? I loved
the music. We aren’t allowed to listen to any music at the CCM so I am excited
to start playing my MoTab :) Some things that I enjoyed was from Bonnie
Oscarson when she said open your hear with kindness. The way to share Christmas
spirit is to be generous. I have been
working really hard on being nicer to everyone. I loved the story that Elder Christopherson
shared and I really liked how President Eyring said the light of Christ shows
through purity. I hope we can all have the light of Christ especially during
this Christmas season!
Well I have always heard
that you always either love or hate the MTC. I LOVED it. Easily the most spiritual experiences I have
had and my testimony has been like thrown up and blown up a million times
(meaning that it has been strengthened so much haha)
I am going to miss
hearing gun shots...haha fireworks go off like every thirty minutes and we hear
gun shots a few times a day, party in Mexico haha.
Time for me to start the
real journey in Mexico! Wish me luck!
Hermana Gifford
My companion and I with the Presidency
This is our district with the Branch Presidency. The man in the very middle is President Alvarado and he is the Branch President. To the right is President Juarez who is the 1st counselor and on the left is President Zirker. President Zirker is the one that gave me the pkg from Debi Martin and he works for the FBI.
This is his face of frustration because I am such a "girly-gir". Really, it's just that all the other Hermanas are Tom-Boys. Hahaha!
Going to miss them all!
He's 4'11". It kills me!!! hahaha!
Hermano Palma and I
Hermano Palma! Such a great teacher!
This is Hermano Vargas. He wasn't one of our main teachers, but spent a lot of time in our classroom.
I already miss her so much! She is going to kill it in New Jersey.
For our last night all together we did Hermana face masks! haha!
Mi companera
This isn't very missionary-like, but don't worry Mom, I'm still a Diva! haha!
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